Claude Monet's birthday was a November celebration. Imagine the Impressionist in his garden, over 100 years ago, painting something wonderful.
After reading A Blue Butterfly by Bijou Le Tord, I set my students free to watercolor butterflies in all shades of blue. Of course I had pre-cut the shapes so that all the focus would be on the blue anticipating poem-making.
Prompting students to write a singular butterfly statement and then to treat that sentence apart we soon created a wonderful kaleidoscope of butterfly line-break poems.
You can too.
-Kim